IMPORTANT: Accept cookies to place a bid!
Our website requires cookies for the bidding form to work. Without cookies, your cart will remain empty, and you won’t be able to place a bid. Click ‘Accept’ to enable bidding and ensure the website functions optimally. We ask for your consent to use cookies.

I agree to the use of cookies. I don't agree to the use of cookies..

Your cart

back to overview

GAROFALO, Biagio

De veterum clypeis opusculum

Leiden
Elie Luzac jun.
1751

€200 - €300

4to, xvi, 131, [1] pp, folding engraved frontispiece, title vignette, 2 engraved plates (Salomon Kleiner), numerous text illustrations (coins and medals). A few lvs. age-toned, otherwise in very good condition. Marbled calf binding, spine richly gilt, ends of spine defective, repaired, red edges, marbled end-lvs

The earliest historical study on the military shields used by the Greeks and the Romans. Ref. Cicognara 1617

History